All Comments: Scooter Blenny

I just came home with my spouse and took a looked in the 50 gallon breeder tank, and we found our two scooter blennies mating! What a suprise! As soon as we walked up to the tank though, they separated quicker than an 85 year old at the slot machine. After they separated we saw the eggs or sperm sacks, whatever they were. We don't know, does anyone have an answer for me? Are they egg layers or live birth fish? We have a 3 stripped damsel, Yellow tailed damesel, a yellow tang and a zebra tang, 3 turbo snails and 4 hermits and a sally light foot. Will all the rest eat the eggs if the scooters lay eggs? Thank you very much

I am pretty sure that my scooter blennies were mating just now. I didn't think that they were getting along but i guess i was wrong.

I like to know where our inhabitants reside in the tank at night. The blenny was hard to find. It would just disappear. One of the residents moved a small rock into the corner. The cleaner shrimp dug blenny out of the sand in that corner. Blenny didn't move. Thought it was dead from rock. Tried to take out blenny but it swam away. Huh, Wonder if blennies play possum! BTW blenny is my fav.

I like watching the scooter blennys shoot across the surface. my dad has a 240 litre tank and it is great and i love waching it. they are very active in the day. they get along with the other fish; a yellow tang, 2 green chromis, 2 humbugs, and 2 damsels. they are so awesome. by jon age 11

My little scooter jumped ship while keeping him in my HOB refugium. I suggest keeping a top on the tank with these fellows unless you want to find a body on the floor :(. Never expected it to do that.

I have 8 Scooter Blennies. I had theam for 4 months. they are really active and love to eat worms that swim all over the live rock and the live sand. 7 of theam are 1-1/2 inches long and the biggest one is 2-3 inches. I love this fish and I recommend that you should buy this fish.

How to pick a male and female pairs of scooter blennies: Look at the folded fin before its dorsal fin much like a bottom mast on a sailboat with the sails down. The male will have a longer mast past the beginning of his dorsal fin. This flag fin is impressive when he raises it or opens it in front of the female! Food they like which i discovered by accident: My male eats formula 1 marine pellets which i feed my flame angel. I drop 5-7 pellets for him everyday on the sand which he picks up one by one as he goes around sifting the LS. The female won't eat it though. One day when i was feeding my arrow crab, cleaner, fire and peppermint shrimp with small pieces of fish and shrimp, she went after the piece of fresh shrimp on my grabber. She really tore into it! Now that's what i give them daily besides what they eat in my tank with 70lbs LR & 35lbs LS. I don't know why they're considered intermediate when they're so adaptable, hardy and seem easy to care for.

We have two scooter blennys that are mating! We found this site that described the ritual. The male flares his fin to get her attention, then they swim up together. Though their eggs will probably get sucked up by the filter its so awesome to watch!

I have 2 Scooters in a small 18 gallon reef tank, I had a horrible hair algae problem... but now, only 1 week after the blennys' have eaten over half of the algae in the tank, its fun to watch them scoot around and eat that algae off. They are very active during the day.

My scooter blenny is always active except at night. It is always eating alge off the rocks, and I love how it climbs on rocks.

My scooter blenny is very active, and is always cleanig and eating anything he can find. I have currently a 30 gallon tank , but soon to purchase a bigger tank.

I have had my scooter blenny for two years now and have never gotten bored with him. he is an active and lively member of my 45 gallon semi reef aquarium. Scooters, for some reason, fascinate me. especially there ability to change color to suit their surroundings very much like a chameleon does, only just not to such an extreme extent. i would highly recommend anyone with a 30 gallon+ aquarium to keep one of these wonderful little characters. They grow to be about 3.2 inches and will eat algae, small crustaetians and occasionally flake foods